Air passenger duty

Air passenger duty rates, tax bands, exemptions and forms.

Services

Send your Air Passenger Duty Return as an occasional operator

Apply for the Occasional Operator Scheme and report your duty liability for all flights in a 24-hour accounting period using form APD6.

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Guidance and regulation

Rates for Air Passenger Duty
- Detailed guide
- 1 April 2024
- HM Revenue & Customs
Exemptions from Air Passenger Duty
- Detailed guide
- 29 January 2018
- HM Revenue & Customs
Submit an Air Passenger Duty return
- Detailed guide
- 26 April 2022
- HM Revenue & Customs
Air Passenger Duty for plane operators
- Detailed guide
- 1 April 2023
- HM Revenue & Customs
Pay Air Passenger Duty
- Detailed guide
- 14 February 2024
- HM Revenue & Customs

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News and communications

CMA closes investigation into British Airways and Ryanair
- 7 October 2021
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Press release
Aviation update: 5 March 2020
- 5 March 2020
- Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority
- Written statement
Airline Insolvency Review final report
- 9 May 2019
- Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority
- Written statement

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Policy papers and consultations

Reforming aviation consumer policy: protecting air passenger rights
- 27 June 2023
- Department for Transport
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 27 March 2022
Air passenger duty: rates from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020
- 22 November 2017
- HM Revenue & Customs
- Policy paper
Air Passenger Duty: changes to rates
- 8 March 2017
- HM Revenue & Customs
- Policy paper
Discussion paper on options for supporting English regional airports from the impacts of air passenger duty devolution
- 9 December 2016
- HM Treasury
- Policy paper
Air Passenger Duty: rates
- 16 March 2016
- HM Revenue & Customs
- Policy paper

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Organisations

Competition and Markets Authority